Word: flings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elections were to be honest. This time, said Pibul sternly, there were to be no "fire cards" (faked ballots) and no "parachutists" (people who vote under other people's names). As a final democratic fillip, Pibul announced that he and eight of his ministers would take their first fling at running for office...
...Sympathy. With time out for the Spanish-American War (he was a corporal), a 1912 trip to Europe and a five-year fling at retirement that ended in 1937, Rudy Dirks has been chronicling the Kids ever since. The great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal sued to prevent Artist Dirks from going over to Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls them...
Bricks Added. In the six months since the dispute began, the press had done little more than fling hot words and editorial darts at the State Department, but last week it began adding some bricks. Two U.S. newsmen who have defied the ban-Edmund Stevens of Look and William Worthy Jr. of the Baltimore Afro-American-made ready to invoke open hearings to fight the State Department's move to revoke their passports. Said Worthy, back in the U.S. after 41 days in Red China: "I want to embarrass the hell out of the State Department." The American Newspaper...
...another year comes to another end, we are tempted, as an outgoing board on our final fling, to cull up all of our wise editorials (and conveniently forget about the others) and piece them together to show you what we have been talking about for a year. If we surrendered to this temptation, we would probably say something about the need for imagination (and realism) in foreign policy, boldness (and gradualism) in domestic policy, and House-ification (and money) in University policy. But that would be dull to write, and certainly worse than dull to read. Either you have seen...
...after this fling...